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monitor

See also: Monitor and monitör

English

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A monitor lizard
 
A CRT computer monitor
 
HMS Marshal Ney, a monitor (warship)
 
A blood oxygen saturation monitor

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Etymology

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From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”). Warship sense is from USS Monitor, the first ship of this type.

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Noun

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monitor (plural monitors)

  1. Someone who watches over something; a person in charge of something or someone.
    The camp monitors look after the children during the night, when the teachers are asleep.
    • 1829, Charles Sprague, To My Cigar:
      And oft, mild friend, to me thou art
      A monitor, though still;
      Thou speak'st a lesson to my heart,
      Beyond the preacher's skill.
  2. A device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something.
  4. (computing) A device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer.
    The information flashed up on the monitor.
  5. A studio monitor or loudspeaker.
  6. (computing) A program for viewing and editing.
    a machine code monitor
  7. (computing, dated) The command line interface of an operating system.
  8. (Hong Kong, Singapore, archaic in UK) A student leader in a class.
    • 1871, Henry William Pullen, The Fight at Dame Europa's School:
      So, as she did not like the masters to be prying about the play-ground out of school, she chose from among the biggest and most trustworthy of her pupils five monitors, who had authority over the rest of the Boys, and kept the unruly ones in order.
    • 1881, Talbot Baines Reed, chapter X, in The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's:
      But it was not so—at least, not always—for though they fell out among themselves, they united their forces against the common enemy—the monitors!
    • (Can we date this quote?), Pearl Poon, Class Monitor Election‎[1], Hong Kong ICAC Comics:
      He learned that a monitor should assist the teachers in distributing worksheets, maintaining class discipline, helping classmates in need and so on.
  10. (nautical) A relatively small armored warship with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat. [from 1862]
  11. A monitor lizard (Varanus spp. and extinct relatives in family Varanidae).
  12. (engineering) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring several tools successively into position.
  13. A monitor nozzle.
  14. (obsolete) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
    • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
      You need not be a monitor to your gracious master the king.
    • 1873, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist, page 119:
      There has been no lack of other monitors — a ticklish haysel, a flooded harvest all through the north […]
  15. (archaic) An ironclad.

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Descendants

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  • → Thai: มอนิเตอร์ (mɔɔ-ní-dtəə)

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Verb

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monitor (third-person singular simple present monitors, present participle monitoring, simple past and past participle monitored)

  1. (transitive) To watch over; to guard.
    • 1993, H. Srinivasan, Prevention of Disabilities in Patients with Leprosy: A Practical Guide‎[2], World Health Organization, page 134:
      Monitoring refers to keeping a watch over patients to ensure that they are practising what they have learnt about disability prevention correctly.
    • 1997, Bekir Onursal, Surhid P. Gautam, Vehicular Air Pollution: Experiences from Seven Latin American Urban Centers‎[3], volumes 23-373, page 239:
      During July 1989-February 1990 ambient SO2, was monitored using a mobile station in the residential-commercial neighborhood of Copacabana.
    • 2002, Mark Baker, Garry Smith, GridRM: A Resource Monitoring Architecture for the Grid, in Manish Parashar (editor), Grid Computing - GRID 2002: Third International Workshop, Springer, LNCS 2536, page 268,
      A wide-area distributed system such as a Grid requires that a broad range of data be monitored and collected for a variety of tasks such as fault detection and performance monitoring, analysis, prediction and tuning.
    • 2023 July 7, “UN says climate change ‘out of control’ after likely hottest week on record”, in The Guardian‎[4], →ISSN:
      The NOAA monitors global temperatures and records on a monthly and an annual basis, not daily. […] Various parts of the world have been experiencing heatwaves and on Thursday the EU’s climate monitoring service said the world had experienced its hottest June on record last month.
  2. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
    a device to monitor people’s brain activity

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin monitōrem (“warner”).

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monitor m (plural monitors)

  1. monitor, someone who watches
  2. teacher, educator
    Synonym: educador
  3. (computing) monitor, display screen
  4. (nautical) monitor (type of warship)

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Czech

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Etymology

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Derived from Latin monitor.

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monitor m inan

  1. monitor (computer display)

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Declension of monitor (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative monitor monitory
genitive monitoru monitorů
dative monitoru monitorům
accusative monitor monitory
vocative monitore monitory
locative monitoru monitorech
instrumental monitorem monitory
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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English monitor, from Latin monitor.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈmoː.niˌtɔr/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: mo‧ni‧tor

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monitor m (plural monitors or monitoren, diminutive monitortje n)

  1. screen, display
  2. (audio) speaker boxes for monitoring sound, on stage directed at musicians or aimed at a sound engineer in a studio
  3. (historical) monitor (low-lying ironclad)
  4. (historical) monitor (small coastal warship specialised in shore bombardment)

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French

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monitor m (plural monitors)

  1. (nautical, military) monitor (warship)

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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From Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”).[1]

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmonitor]
  • Hyphenation: mo‧ni‧tor
  • Rhymes: -or

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monitor (plural monitorok)

  1. (computer hardware) monitor (a device similar to a television set used as to give a graphical display of the output from a computer)

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative monitor monitorok
accusative monitort monitorokat
dative monitornak monitoroknak
instrumental monitorral monitorokkal
causal-final monitorért monitorokért
translative monitorrá monitorokká
terminative monitorig monitorokig
essive-formal monitorként monitorokként
essive-modal — —
inessive monitorban monitorokban
superessive monitoron monitorokon
adessive monitornál monitoroknál
illative monitorba monitorokba
sublative monitorra monitorokra
allative monitorhoz monitorokhoz
elative monitorból monitorokból
delative monitorról monitorokról
ablative monitortól monitoroktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		monitoré monitoroké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		monitoréi monitorokéi
Possessive forms of monitor
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. monitorom monitoraim, monitorjaim
2nd person sing. monitorod monitoraid, monitorjaid
3rd person sing. monitora, monitorja monitorai, monitorjai
1st person plural monitorunk monitoraink, monitorjaink
2nd person plural monitorotok monitoraitok, monitorjaitok
3rd person plural monitoruk, monitorjuk monitoraik, monitorjaik

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  1. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

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  • monitor in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English monitor, from Latin monitor (“warner”), from perfect passive participle monitus (“warning”), from verb monere (“to warn, admonish, remind”).

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Noun

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monitor (plural monitor-monitor)

  1. monitor
    1. someone who watches over something
      Synonym: (more common) pemantau
    2. (computing) computer display
    3. a device that detects and informs on the presence, quantity, etc., of something
      1. (medicine) vital signs monitor
    4. (engineering) a tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret
      1. monitor nozzle
  2. monitoring; surveillance or continuous or regular observation
    Synonyms: pemantauan, pemonitoran, (colloquial) monitoring

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monitor

  1. to monitor; basic/imperative/informal of memonitor
    Synonym: pantau

Conjugation

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Conjugation of monitor (meng-, transitive)
root monitor
active passive basic
imperative 		emphatic
jussive
reflective1 ordinary
ordinary
nominative memonitor termonitor dimonitor monitor monitorlah
accusative / dative / locative memonitori termonitori dimonitori monitori monitorilah
perfective causative / applicative2 memonitorkan termonitorkan dimonitorkan monitorkan monitorkanlah
causative
nominative – – – – –
accusative / dative / locative – – – – –
perfective causative / applicative2 – – – – –

1 There is another form of reflective passive verb with affixation of ke- -an which is not included in the table. This form is only attested in active voice without causative affixation of per-.
2 The -kan row is either causative or applicative. With transitive roots it mostly has applicative meaning.
Some of these forms do not normally exist or are rarely used in standard Indonesian. Some forms may also change meaning.

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Italian

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from English monitor.

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    monitor m (invariable)

    1. monitor (apparatus)

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    1. ^ monitor in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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    Latin

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    Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *men-
    Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
    Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
    Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti
    Proto-Italic *moneō
    Latin moneō
    Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
    Proto-Italic *-tōr
    Latin -tor
    Latin monitor

      From moneō + -tor. Compare Ancient Greek Μέντωρ (Méntōr, “Mentor”) and Sanskrit मन्तृ (mantṛ, “advisor, counselor”).

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      monitor m (genitive monitōris); third declension

      1. counselor, preceptor
      2. prompter, warner

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      Third-declension noun.

      singular plural
      nominative monitor monitōrēs
      genitive monitōris monitōrum
      dative monitōrī monitōribus
      accusative monitōrem monitōrēs
      ablative monitōre monitōribus
      vocative monitor monitōrēs

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      • “monitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
      • “monitor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

      Malay

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      Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
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      Etymology

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      From English monitor, from Latin monitor.

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      monitor (Jawi spelling مونيتور, plural monitor-monitor or monitor2)

      1. (computing) monitor (computer display)
        • 2015 August 24, Nurhayati Abllah, “Monitor lengkung Acer begitu 'trendy' [The Acer curved monitor is so 'trendy']”, in Berita Harian‎[5]:
          Luaran monitor model juga kelihatan lebih premium dan menarik dengan panel belakang berkilat dengan kemasan aluminium futuristik sebagai penegak.
          The exterior of the monitor model also appears more premium and attractive, featuring a glossy back panel with futuristic aluminum casing as a stand.

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      Polish

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      Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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      monitor sense 1
       
      monitor sense 3

      Etymology

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      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *men-
      Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
      Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
      Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti
      Proto-Italic *moneō
      Latin moneō
      Proto-Indo-European *-tōr
      Proto-Italic *-tōr
      Latin -tor
      Latin monitorlbor.
      Polish monitor

        Learned borrowing from Latin monitor.

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        monitor m inan (related adjective monitorowy)

        2. (computer hardware) monitor, screen (output device that displays information in pictorial or textual form)
          Hypernym: urządzenie
        3. official magazine or news program having the word “monitor” in the title in which resolutions and orders of state authorities are published
          Hypernym: czasopismo
        5. (military) monitor (one of a class of relatively small armored warships with only one or two turrets (but often carrying unusually large guns for a warship of its size), usually designed for shore bombardment or riverine warfare rather than open-ocean combat)
          Hypernym: okręt

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        Declension of monitor
        singular plural
        nominative monitor monitory
        genitive monitora monitorów
        dative monitorowi monitorom
        accusative monitor monitory
        instrumental monitorem monitorami
        locative monitorze monitorach
        vocative monitorze monitory

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        Further reading

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        • “monitor”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[6] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
        • “monitor”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[7] (in Polish)
        • monitor in PWN's encyclopedia

        Portuguese

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        Learned borrowing from Latin monitōrem.

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        monitor m (plural monitores, feminine monitora, feminine plural monitoras)

        1. monitor (someone who watches over something)
        2. monitor lizard (lizard of the genus Varanus)
          Synonyms: varano, lagarto-monitor
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        Etymology 2

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        Borrowed from English monitor.

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        monitor m (plural monitores)

        1. (computing) monitor (computer display)
          Synonyms: ecrã, (Brazil) tela

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        Romanian

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from French monitor.

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        monitor n (plural monitoare)

        1. monitor

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        singular plural
        indefinite definite indefinite definite
        nominative-accusative monitor monitorul monitoare monitoarele
        genitive-dative monitor monitorului monitoare monitoarelor
        vocative monitorule monitoarelor

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        Etymology

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        Borrowed from English monitor.

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        • IPA(key): /mǒnitor/
        • Hyphenation: mo‧ni‧tor

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        mònitor m inan or m anim (Cyrillic spelling мо̀нитор)

        1. (computing, medicine, broadcasting, inanimate) monitor (screen for displaying information, or a device for monitoring a condition, equipped with such a screen)
        2. (computing, inanimate, dated) monitor (command-line program for controlling the operating system)
        3. (nautical, inanimate) monitor (shallow-draft warship for operating in rivers or near the shore)
        4. (animate) monitor (person in charge of monitoring others, e.g. children or teenagers)

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        inanimate
        Declension of monitor
        singular plural
        nominative monitor monitori
        genitive monitora monitora
        dative monitoru monitorima
        accusative monitor monitore
        vocative monitoru / monitore monitori
        locative monitoru monitorima
        instrumental monitorom monitorima
        animate
        Declension of monitor
        singular plural
        nominative monitor monitori
        genitive monitora monitora
        dative monitoru monitorima
        accusative monitora monitore
        vocative monitoru / monitore monitori
        locative monitoru monitorima
        instrumental monitorom monitorima

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        Etymology

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        Learned borrowing from Latin monitor.

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        monitor m (plural monitores)

        1. monitor (electronic device)
          Synonym: pantalla

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        monitor m (plural monitores, feminine monitora, feminine plural monitoras)

        1. instructor, monitor
        2. coach, trainer
          Synonym: entrenador

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